July 2017

GEOHuntsville UAS Working Group is working to establish a means of assisting public first responders to do their jobs more efficiently and with greater effectiveness. During the week of July 17th in Huntsville, AL, at a time when most folks were seeking shade and the comfort of air conditioned facilities, one dedicated group climbed up to the rooftop of the iconic Von Braun Center near downtown to test the feasibility of UAS operations for an […]

Joint UAS Testing at the NIST Test Site tested the UAS across a wide variety of real-world tasks, July 11th-13th. The NOAA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Program was invited to participate with counterparts from DHS, DOJ, DOD and civilian emergency responders for a joint UAS assessments. The UAS demonstrations were held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland July 11th-13th. Multiple UAS conducted multiple tasks, and the schedule of the

Sixteen NOAA teams were awarded funding to explore the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to capture NOAA observation requirements. The NOAA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Program hosted the NOAA UAS Program FY 16 & 17 “Lightning Round” Briefings on July 10th to inform the 16 winning teams research and operations, and provided UAS best practices and lessons learned with this year’s Principle Investigators (PI).  UAS Program Director, Robbie Hood, led the webinar with support

NOAA brief’s Department of Interior’s (DOI) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Users Group on Successful UAS Calibration/Validation Assessment of Satellite. The NOAA GOES-R and UAS Programs Brief DOI’s UAS Users Group on the successful small UAS Calibration/Validation  (CAL/VAL) Assessment of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R).  On July 5th, Frank Padula and John “JC” Coffey described that one of the main objectives of the GOES-R field campaign was to validate the SI traceability of the

Robbie Hood on a distinguished panel during the Autonomy & Innovation Across the Defence, Security and Civil Sectors Conference. Robbie Hood, NOAA UAS Program Director, was on a distinguished panel during the Autonomy & Innovation Across the Defence, Security and Civil Sectors Conference at the British Embassy on June 29th. The British Defence Staff US (BDSUS) S&T and Trade teams, British Embassy, Washington DC  in coordination with the U.S. DoD and multiple Embassy based UK